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Ascendancy Classes are like specializations for your character, giving you more options to customize them to your playstyle.
With PoE 2's Early Access, players will have access to 6 playable classes, each with 2 Ascendancy Classes. In this article, we'll be going through a basic overview of each Ascendancy and what you can expect.
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While playing through the Campaign, you will get access to "Ascension Trials." These are essentially dungeons that you can complete in order to unlock your Ascendancy Class. After unlocking, higher difficulty Trials will unlock additional points to spend on your Ascendancy Class Tree.
There will be two trials with slightly different mechanics, and you can choose which Trial to tackle for your Ascension. A third Trial will be coming later.
The first trial is similar to Sanctum if you've played PoE 1. You will have a new resource called Honour. When hit, your Honour will decrease. If you lose it all, your run is over and you need to enter again.
As you progress, you'll pick new rooms to explore, fight a variety of monsters, and face different challenges. You may also find items/NPCs that will benefit you on your run.
For the Trial of Chaos, there won't be an Honour system. So if you have a slow tanky character, this Trial may be better for you. Instead, you'll move through different areas, choosing detrimental effects along the way.
These could be environmental hazards, curses, monster buffs, and more.
Now that you know what Ascendancies are and how to unlock them, let's go over each Ascendancy. We won't go into a full deep dive, but cover just enough so you can have a feel of what they do.
We'll be sure to go more in depth on each Ascendancy in their own guides, but for now, here's a brief overview.
Use massive Slam Skills to deal damage in an AoE and stun enemies with ease.
Summon Ancestral Spirits linked to your totems, defend yourself with Jade, or ignore your Warcry cooldowns.
Specialize in killing spellcasters rather than attacker and explode enemies corpses on death.
Empower yourself with the power of Gems, granting more Skill slots and gaining bonuses focused on your Skill/Support Gems
Control and manipulate time, teleport, reset yourself, or even freeze time.
Master of the Elements. Use Spells that deal Fire, Cold, and/or Lightning damage to apply status ailments and deal elemental damage.
Summon a Hellhound, convert your Mana into "Infernal Flame," or transform into a Demon.
Use your life as a resouce to empower your character.
Focus on Elemental Damage Attacks, specializing in Cold or Lightning Damage.
Turn your Spirit into Darkness to deal/absorb damage, empower your Chaos Damage, and more.
Focus on empowering your Bow Skills, becoming the ultimate Marksman.
Specialize in Flasks using your charges to throw Concoctions or focus on Chaos damage, spreading Poison.
